I understand it is common for teenagers to sneak out at night and hang out together. Sooner or later something like this will happen. Two 15 year old boys were nearly killed when they were run over by a car while sleeping in a street at 3:30 in the morning.
What can we do to keep these kids safe and inside at night? My daughter seems to thing that if their not doing something against the law it's no big deal.

I can see sleeping outside - especially in the heat - but in the street? Can't imagine. Maybe the last person was right, it was the forbiddenness that appealed to them. Poor Chronicle delivery person! It sounds kind of unfair that police are saying she may be to blame. I know we are supposed to always watch for cars, bikes, children, etc., but people sleeping on the street?

In reference to the 14 year old SRVHS daughter..One case against the two fifteen year olds is that Danville does have a curfew which they obviously broke. Why couldn't these boys star gaze on the front lawn or in the back yard? I feel terrible for this Chronicle delivery person. I agree with Dee who would have thought to watch for children sleeping in the street.

Star gazing my hairy henie!

Drunk or stoned is my bet.

The article says that stopping the car and trapping the kids underneath made "a "bizarre accident" even odder". Did they not stop to think that driving over the kids with a second wheel might have caused a little more damage--like death?

A driver should be paying attention to what's in the roadway, even at 3:30 in the morning, but no one would expect to see people sleeping in the street. while the blame must be shared by both the driver and the kids, I think the driver showed remarkable sense in stopping instantly and not making the damage worse than it already was.

yah, either drunk or stoned. Why in the middle of the street? There must be something the P.D. is hiding or the paper.

Note that they were sleeping "face down"? Doesn't seem like stargazing to me...

Leah hit it on the head. Why does the writer (Meghan Neal) think there is oddity associated with stopping after running over an object? Should she have just continued and run over the objects (in this case bodies) with the second axle / set of wheels? Where do they get these writers?

Lastly, where were the parents and why don't they care where their kids sleep? Drug tests for all - including Meghan.

Bob-

I didn't take it as the writer thought that it was odd that the driver stopped the car after running over the kids. I took it as this whole situation is odd (kids sleeping in the street, kids trapped under a car), not odd why the driver stopped.

I do agree with you about where the parents were and why don't they care where their children sleep-- or if they even knew where they were.